Friday, May 2nd, 2008
A report released May 1 by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation shows the U.S. is trailing most other advanced nations in providing high-speed Internet to its people. We've known for a while that the U.S. is falling behind, but the report makes the claim that bad policy is only ...
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
Verizon and Comcast are rolling out the next generation of high-speed technology to limited markets. The new connections are going to deliver about 25 times the rate of the average broadband connections that are most widely available today. Verizon's FiOS has been available to folks in a number of states ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
The Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2008, introduced in the House by Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Chip Pickering (R-Miss.) in the beginning of February might be in trouble. The goal of the legislation is to address Net Neutrality issues and broadband issues.
The law, if passed, would require the ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
A recent paper and survey from researchers at Cornell and the University of Toronto puts some interesting data on the digital divide issue. Through a survey of more than 18,000 Americans, the researchers found that people on the lower end of the income spectrum spend more time on the Internet. ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
A few years ago, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair proclaimed that there would be "universal internet access for all who want it." This goal was set for 2005. According to this recent article on Silicon.com, around 35 percent of homes in the UK do not have access to Internet, ...
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